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{{Short description|Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Leo d'Almada e Castro
|honorific_suffix={{Post-nominals|country=UK|size=100%|CBE|QC|JP}}
|native_name = {{nobold|廖亞孖打/廖亞利孖打}}
|native_name_lang = zh-hk
|birth_date={{birth date|1904|5|28|df=y}}
|birth_place= [[Hong Kong]]
|office=Member of the [[Executive Council of Hong Kong|Executive Council]]
|appointed=[[Alexander Grantham]]
|term_start=1949
|term_end= 28 May 1959
|predecessor=
|successor= [[Alberto Maria Rodrigues]]
|office1=Member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]]
|appointed1=[[Andrew Caldecott]]
|term_start1=3 February 1937
|term_end1= 13 November 1941
|predecessor1=
|successor1=
|appointed2=[[Mark Aitchison Young]]
|term_start2=1 May 1946
|term_end2= 29 April 1953
|office3=Chairman of the [[Hong Kong Bar Association]]
|term_start3=January 1961
|term_end3=January 1963
|predecessor3= [[Lo Hin Shing]]
|successor3= [[Brook Bernacchi]]
|term_start4=January 1959
|term_end4=January 1960
|predecessor4= [[John McNeill (lawyer)|John McNeill]]
|successor4= Lo Hin Shing
|term_start5=January 1957
|term_end5=January 1958
|predecessor5= John McNeill
|successor5= John McNeill
|term_start6=January 1954
|term_end6=January 1955
|predecessor6= [[Charles Edgar Loseby|Charles Loseby]]
|successor6= John McNeill
|term_start7=January 1951
|term_end7=January 1952
|predecessor7= Charles Loseby
|successor7= John McNeill
|alma_mater= [[St. Joseph's College, Hong Kong|St. Joseph's College]];<br>[[University of Hong Kong]];<br>[[Exeter College, Oxford]]
|occupation= [[Barrister-at-law]]
|party=
|death_date= 1996 (aged 91-92)<ref>[http://www.clublusitano.com/leonardo-dalmada-e-castro-cbe-qc-lld-1904-1996/ Club Lusitano: Leonardo d’Almada e Castro CBE QC LLD 1904 to 1996]</ref>
|death_place= [[Portugal]]
|nationality= [[Portugal]]<br>[[United Kingdom]]
|spouse= Clothilde Belmira Barretto
}}
'''Leonardo Horácio d'Almada e Castro Jr.''' {{Post-nominals|country=UK|CBE|QC|JP}} ({{zh-t|廖亞孖打/廖亞利孖打}}; 28 May 1904&nbsp;– 1996) was a barrister and prominent leader of the Portuguese community in Hong Kong.
==Biography==
He was born in Hong Kong in the d'Alamda family which had existed since the British rule of Hong Kong in 1842. He was educated as [[St. Joseph's College, Hong Kong|St. Joseph's College]] and the [[University of Hong Kong]]. He later claimed he failed in completing his studies because of his laziness. He left for England and graduated in jurisprudence from the [[Exeter College, Oxford]] in 1926 and was called to the Bar as a member of the [[Middle Temple]] in 1927.<ref name="HKU">{{cite book|title=An impossible dream: Hong Kong University from foundation to re-establishment, 1910-1950|first=Peter|last=Cunich|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=172}}</ref> He briefly lectured commercial law at the University of Hong Kong before he started practising law in Hong Kong. Until 1960, he was one of the only four Queen's Counsel practising in Hong Kong, the others were namely, [[John McNeil]], [[Charles Edgar Loseby|Charles Loseby]] and [[Brook Bernacchi]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Tales from Number Nine Ice House Street|last=Yu|first=Patrick Shuk-siu|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|year=2002|page=23}}</ref> He was appointed as an [[unofficial member]] in the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] from 1937 to 1941 in the succession of [[José Pedro Braga]] and 1946 to 1953 after the war.<ref name="Ure">{{cite book|title=Governors, Politics, and the Colonial Office: Public Policy in Hong Kong, 1918-58|last=Ure|first=Gavin|year=2012|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|page=254}}</ref>
During the [[Second World War]] he lived in [[Macao]] and served as a liaison officer between the Portuguese and British governments in connection of refugees.<ref name="HKU"/> He was appointed to the [[Hong Kong Planning Unit]] in London during the last years of the war after his difficult journey through Japanese-occupied China to India, and then to England. He served as President of the General Military Court during the short-term British military rule after the surrender of Japan in 1945. He became the first Hong Kong Portuguese [[King's Counsel]] in 1947 and his wife was appointed one of Hong Kong's first female Justices of the Peace at this time. In 1949, he was appointed to the [[Executive Council of Hong Kong]].
He was also the member of the court of the University of Hong Kong from 1937 and President of the [[Hong Kong Bar Association]] five times from 1951 to 1962.<ref name="Ure"/> In the business sector, he was the director of the [[China Light and Power Company|China Light & Power Co.]], China Underwriters and Far East Investment, Vice-President of the Boy Scouts Association of Hong Kong, Member of the Lusitano Club and Club Recreio.<ref name="Who's who">{{cite book|title=Asia Who's Who|publisher=Pan-Asia Newspaper Alliance|year=1958|page=144}}</ref>
According to the ''Asia Who's Who'' in 1958, he lived in 12 Kadoorie Avenue, Kowloon.<ref name="Who's who"/>
==References==
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{{s-bef | before = [[Jose Pedro Braga]]}}
{{s-ttl | title  = Portuguese [[Unofficial Member]]
| years  = 1937–1941}}
{{s-non | reason = [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong]]}}
{{s-bef | before = [[Japanese occupation of Hong Kong]]}}
{{s-ttl | title  = Unofficial Member
| years  = 1946–1953}}
{{s-aft | after = [[Kenneth Fung|Fung Ping-fan]]}}
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[[Category:Barristers of Hong Kong]]
[[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Hong Kong Queen's Counsel]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Hong Kong]]
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